Example sentences of "be [verb] to time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially the engineer 's role is to monitor and supervise the construction and to ensure that the works are completed to time , cost and colour . |
| 2 | Researchers have discovered that periods of dreaming during sleep are related to times of rapid-eye movement ( REM ) during which the eyes flick from side to side under the eyelids . |
| 3 | Committees are beginning to time their reports to correspond with appropriate business , such as legislation or a planned debate and this ensures greater coverage of their report . |
| 4 | It can be argued that a similar approach should be taken to time limit clauses , on the basis that they do not wholly exclude liability , but require action to be taken swiftly . |
| 5 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
| 6 | At a time the stress is reduced to times the original value and this characteristic time is known as the relaxation time τ . |
| 7 | On the trains no problems , East Midlands Airport say everything 's running to time , in the city centre no huge delays anywhere , on the motorways they 're all okay as well , on the A One there 's major work just started on the roundabout , that 's the er five lanes end roundabout affecting southbound traffic , there are long delays there in peak times , that 's at er five lane ends , the work there on the A One just started , that 's the Roundabout , southbound traffic is being affected , there are long delays there . |
| 8 | Use of the mixing tank exhaust system was restricted to times of filling and all bag house emissions were processed through a special carbon filter . |
| 9 | Instead it was left to Times Newspapers Ltd and others , to bring the case to court and win on the grounds that the library authorities had abused their powers under Section 7 of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |